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Martial law with 475,000,000 privately owned firearms? (Original Post) Aviation Pro 6 hrs ago OP
I've been thinking the same thing. pdxflyboy 6 hrs ago #1
Yep Aviation Pro 5 hrs ago #2
Nationwide martial law is clearly unenforceable Fiendish Thingy 5 hrs ago #3
Sounds like the NRA position when you support the same argument that millions of gun owners make regularly MichMan 5 hrs ago #4
Im sure they do... slightlv 3 hrs ago #22
What does owning a gun Tickle 5 hrs ago #5
Name a country that imposed martial law Aviation Pro 5 hrs ago #7
Poland, martial law 1981-1983 Tickle 4 hrs ago #10
Has Trump actually said he will impose martial law? PoindexterOglethorpe 5 hrs ago #6
Inferred through his citing the Insurrection Act Aviation Pro 5 hrs ago #8
Once again, let's not PoindexterOglethorpe 4 hrs ago #13
Exactly. Keep it rational, folks. paleotn 4 hrs ago #18
Yeah, i want to believe you slightlv 3 hrs ago #23
If DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #25
He says a lot of shit. paleotn 4 hrs ago #16
But there are only 6 gun owners lame54 4 hrs ago #9
And many of those 475,000,000 firearms are not owned by MAGAt's. republianmushroom 4 hrs ago #11
I'm guessing not most though ... and by a long shot. KPN 3 hrs ago #21
In before the.... Fla_Democrat 4 hrs ago #12
Ain't happening. paleotn 4 hrs ago #14
My concern is that many of those gun owners are trumpsters, haters, militia types, etc., who will join in Silent Type 4 hrs ago #15
Oh, I think we got a taste of DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #26
'Liberals'will 'lie down and take it.' :sarcasm: speak easy 4 hrs ago #17
He'll deputize the militias. Kid Berwyn 4 hrs ago #19
Remember when we ridiculed sarisataka 3 hrs ago #20
Believe Congress will stop some of his crazy ideas KS Toronado 3 hrs ago #24
I don't have the stats at hand, but many firearms are concentrated in the hands of collectors with only two hands. usonian 3 hrs ago #27
Great movie Aviation Pro 2 hrs ago #28
I've got some insane rock formations here up on the ridge. One looks like a graboid. usonian 2 hrs ago #29
That looks like a fish 🐟 Blue_Tires 1 hr ago #31
A rockfish. usonian 1 hr ago #33
Under the MAGA version of martial law Blue_Tires 1 hr ago #30
and that's just the guns they know about. Emile 1 hr ago #32

Aviation Pro

(13,612 posts)
2. Yep
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:58 AM
5 hrs ago

Unless President Motherfucker-Felon wants to press his mushroom against the third rail of the 2A. To which I say good luck with that as well.

Fiendish Thingy

(18,986 posts)
3. Nationwide martial law is clearly unenforceable
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:03 AM
5 hrs ago

It’s never been invoked nationwide before, only to cities experiencing widespread rioting or natural disasters.

If martial law is invoked, it will only be applied to high profile blue cities like Portland or SF.

MichMan

(13,716 posts)
4. Sounds like the NRA position when you support the same argument that millions of gun owners make regularly
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:08 AM
5 hrs ago

I'm sure they appreciate it

slightlv

(4,572 posts)
22. Im sure they do...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:22 PM
3 hrs ago

But you know what? You just don't lay down and let them take you. You might even find a way to make common cause against those mandating it. Stranger things have happened.

Aviation Pro

(13,612 posts)
7. Name a country that imposed martial law
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:46 AM
5 hrs ago

That did not have strict gun control in place.

Tickle

(3,230 posts)
10. Poland, martial law 1981-1983
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:08 PM
4 hrs ago

During martial law was when they put on restrictions on owning guns

paleotn

(19,693 posts)
18. Exactly. Keep it rational, folks.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:54 PM
4 hrs ago

He is limited to the laws and conditions of politics. Some shit, most of his shit, just won't fly.

slightlv

(4,572 posts)
23. Yeah, i want to believe you
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:24 PM
3 hrs ago

I just find it hard to do with everything he's gotten away with. And now with the whole ball of wax in the neocons hands? Yea, I don't know.

DENVERPOPS

(10,301 posts)
25. If
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:38 PM
3 hrs ago

we all had a dollar for every time in the last 45+ years, we said: "The Republicans can't do that" or "the Republicans won't do that" we would all have more money than Musk and his fellow Republican Owned Zillionaires......

And the last 8 years all they are doing has accelerated to warp speed.

Dum-Dum Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld almost succeeded in repealing the Posse Commatatus Act.......The USSC stopped them.
I doubt there would be any interference by the current Republican controlled USSC this time around.

paleotn

(19,693 posts)
16. He says a lot of shit.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:53 PM
4 hrs ago

98.9% of which never, ever happens because it's mostly crazed spewing.

republianmushroom

(18,369 posts)
11. And many of those 475,000,000 firearms are not owned by MAGAt's.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:32 PM
4 hrs ago

Best think about it, convicted felon.

Fla_Democrat

(2,579 posts)
12. In before the....
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:33 PM
4 hrs ago

In before the 'smol pp' and 'they're cowards' team shows up... but I'm waiting to be entertained.






Silent Type

(7,558 posts)
15. My concern is that many of those gun owners are trumpsters, haters, militia types, etc., who will join in
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:52 PM
4 hrs ago

if trump declares martial law. However, I'm not convinced he will. I do suspect he'll send in some troops if there is some kind of protest that includes burning buildings, etc. They might just be there for show, though.

DENVERPOPS

(10,301 posts)
26. Oh, I think we got a taste of
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:43 PM
3 hrs ago

what Trump and his loyal population of Trumphumpers will do, like during the Peaceful Black Lives Matter Demonstrations around the country, Particularly when Trump sent in selected fanatically bigoted Border Patrol Agents, with no identifying markings and unmarked vehicles to Portland.....

Kid Berwyn

(18,586 posts)
19. He'll deputize the militias.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:57 PM
4 hrs ago

The right kind of Turd Reich militia, if you get my drift.



These fucks brought their treasured manhood into the Michigan Capitol to protect their right to not wear masks during a pandemic.

sarisataka

(21,340 posts)
20. Remember when we ridiculed
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:59 PM
3 hrs ago

The idea of right-wingers ideas of fighting the government, their guns against tanks, planes, drones, nukes?

Any reason the idea is suddenly more plausible?

KS Toronado

(19,906 posts)
24. Believe Congress will stop some of his crazy ideas
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:35 PM
3 hrs ago

maybe even the SCOTUS, but granted they will not be able to stop all of them.

usonian

(15,058 posts)
27. I don't have the stats at hand, but many firearms are concentrated in the hands of collectors with only two hands.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:45 PM
3 hrs ago


Not to minimize the problem, of course.

Blue_Tires

(57,208 posts)
30. Under the MAGA version of martial law
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:57 PM
1 hr ago

White folks will be "deputized" to hunt down Latino immigrants, black folks and other "political enemies" of Donnie...

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